Creature editor and creative freedom
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“The best character creation i've ever seen, you can make literally anything you can think of, your imagination is your only limit.”
Steam review · 3.7 h played ↗
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Very Positive · 93%Very Positive · 93%Maxis™2008Sandbox · Colony Sim · Simulation
The verdict
A charming, hugely creative evolution sandbox with a brilliant creature editor, but later stages are shallow, and the Steam version crashes, lacks autosave and has broken online features.
Great for
Creative and nostalgic players who love building creatures and don't need deep strategy or online sharing
Main risk
Crashes with no autosave can wipe hours of progress, and Steam copies can't easily use online features
What players love
Nostalgic childhood classic
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“This game is a cult classic for late millennial/early gen Z that I never forgot”
Steam review · 31.5 h played ↗
Cell-to-space progression with varied stages
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“Super fun game that keeps changing play styles as you progress.”
Steam review · 90.8 h played ↗
Fun for all ages, easy to pick up
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“I think anybody could play this game no matter your intrests.”
Steam review · 9.2 h played ↗
Highly replayable
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 positive reviews
“Replayable as hell, too.”
Steam review · 51.4 h played ↗
Runs well on weak PCs
Mentioned in ~1 in 30 positive reviews
“it can even run on a potato PC like mine”
Steam review · 63.7 h played ↗
What players complain about
Frequent crashes
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Wish it could go more than 20 minutes without crashing.”
Steam review · 86.6 h played ↗
Online features and login broken on Steam
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“if you buy it on steam your game no longer comes with a CD key. This means you cannot register your game, and not being able to register your game means you cannot use online features.”
Steam review · 23.4 h played ↗
No autosave, progress lost
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Why in the hell is there no autosave, I just hyperfixated from the tribal stage halfway through the space age and the game crashed and i lost all that progress”
Steam review · 21.8 h played ↗
Later stages boring or shallow
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Kind of just falls off after the creature stage, after that it just gets boring.”
Steam review · 2.3 h played ↗
Abandoned, outdated, buggy UI and resolution
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Good for its time, now it falls short at everything it does. The company won't provide support, updates or anything else, ever.”
Steam review · 20.5 h played ↗
Overpriced, DLC sold separately
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 negative reviews
“attempting to sell a nearly twenty-year-old video game for $20 USD full price. It isn't worth that price.”
Steam review · 4.8 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unsupported4 GB
Minimum
Processor2.0 GHz Intel Pentium® 4 or equivalent
Memory512 MB RAM (768 MB RAM for Vista)
Graphics128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
StorageAt least 4 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for creations
Processor2.0 GHz Intel Pentium® 4 or equivalent
Memory512 MB RAM (768 MB RAM for Vista)
Graphics128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
StorageAt least 4 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for creations
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